In pictures: A look back at past winners of the Time Person of the Year

His controversial election in 2000 and his subsequent re-election four years
later helped Bush to become Person of the Year on both occasions. In 2004,
Time said: “For sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing
reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes–and ours–on his faith
in the power of leadership, George W Bush is Time’s Person of the Year.”